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From: Dan Clore
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Subject: FBI's Anti-Einstein Campaign
Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2002 16:00:56 -0700
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[But the FBI would never do anything like this now, would
it?--DC]
"Not even Stalin himself" was affiliated with so many
anarchic-communist groups, the letter said.
Saturday, 8 June, 2002, 14:52 GMT 15:52 UK
FBI campaign against Einstein revealed
Einstein's theory of relativity revolutionised science
By Dr David Whitehouse
BBC News Online science editor
A new book reveals the 22-year effort by FBI director J
Edgar Hoover to get Albert Einstein arrested as a political
subversive or even a Soviet spy.
Uncovered FBI files are revealed in a book by Fred Jerome
who says it was a clash of cultures--Einstein's challenge
and change with Hoover's order and obedience.
>From the time Einstein arrived in the US in 1933 to the time
of his death, in 1955, the FBI files reveal that his phone
was tapped, his mail was opened and even his trash searched.
Einstein became world famous in 1906 for his Special Theory
of Relativity that deals with light.
His General Theory of Relativity, published in 1919, deals
with gravity and has been called mankind's greatest
intellectual accomplishment.
Derogatory information
The Einstein File begins with a request by J Edgar Hoover in
1950: "Please furnish a report as to the nature of any
derogatory information contained in any file your bureau may
have on the following person."
That person was Albert Einstein, and the request intensified
a secret campaign to discredit him.
Hoover was worried about Einstein's liberal intellectualism
and his dabbling in politics, something that has been
forgotten today. It has been overtaken by Einstein's
absent-minded professor image.
But Einstein was outspoken against social injustice and
violations of civil rights.
The fledgling state of Israel once offered Einstein its
presidency. Einstein declined.
The broad outline of this story has been known since 1983,
when Richard Alan Schwartz, a professor of English at
Florida International University in Miami, obtained a
censored version of Einstein's 1,427-page FBI file.
But Jerome uncovers new material.
He sued the US Government with the help of the Public
Citizen Litigation Group to obtain all the documents in the
Einstein file.
Stalin comparison
The new material shows how the bureau spied on Einstein.
"It is like the agents got up in the morning, brushed their
teeth, opened other people's mail and tapped some phones,"
he told the BBC.
After he left Germany, appalled by the barbarism of the
Nazis, Einstein lent his name to a variety of organisations
dedicated to peace and disarmament.
Because of this, the Woman Patriot Corp wrote a 16-page
letter to the State Department, the first item in Einstein's
file, in 1932, arguing that Einstein should not be allowed
into the United States.
"Not even Stalin himself" was affiliated with so many
anarchic-communist groups, the letter said.
Fred Jerome reveals that the 1,800-page document prepared
about Einstein by the FBI shows that the agency even bugged
his secretary's nephew's house.
The files reveal that for five years J Edgar Hoover tried,
and failed, to link Einstein to a Soviet espionage ring.
The Einstein File by Fred Jerome, St Martin's Press, New
York, 272 pages.
--
Dan Clore
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